Rust is emerging as a frontrunner for ensuring memory safety without sacrificing performance. Its growing popularity isn’t solely based on the “fearless concurrency” mantra but also on its expanding ecosystem that fosters integration with various technologies. A domain Rust proves to be formidable is database interaction, and a pivotal player in this realm is the Diesel ORM. Diesel is an ORM and query builder designed with the philosophy of type safety and a simple API that primes application performance.
In this article, I will demonstrate how to get up and running with Rust, connecting to SQL databases using the Diesel